gonna have to adjust this for whether it's Nigeria, make it an African standard versus etc. But I feel like it's a one-to-one isn't it? Pretty close. That energy equals good life.

Well Russia, Russia is an example of energy being the only reason they have the lifestyle they have, isn't it? If you took energy away from Russia it wouldn't even be anything. There wouldn't be anything there at all because they couldn't fund the military. They would just be this broken military, broken nuclear power. And we would be talking about how to give aid to Russia so they don't collapse and lose control of their nukes. Basically it's a good thing that Russia has energy because that's what keeps up a stable country which allows them to control their nuclear arsenal. You don't want Russia to fall apart. That would be pretty dangerous.

All right so I'm not sure if people quite understood the ramifications of Biden's leadership there.

So yesterday I experienced my most uplifting experience of freedom and most crushing feeling at the same time. So I went to the gym yesterday where I've been maskless for a while while other people wore masks. A lot of them did. But now I don't think that the OSHA has changed the state rules yet. But for all practical purposes everybody was maskless except, well let me do the first part first. Walking into my gym and seeing the full faces of pretty much all of the patrons was exhilarating. Now I know lots of you have just always been there since the beginning of the pandemic. But for those of us who have not been free to walk into a room full of happy people exercising without masks, it made me cry honestly. I mean I actually teared up. It was beautiful. And it made me feel for the first time that we got past this thing.

And then I noticed that the staff were wearing masks. Am I right? Do I even need to finish this? The staff are still wearing masks. Now I believe that they have the option. I was told that they didn't have to wear them. But it didn't look like anybody was taking the option. Meaning that there was some indirect pressure that the staff were wearing masks. Now I offered to help. I offered to talk to management and see if I could get them unm